{"id":312659,"date":"2010-02-12T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=56891"},"modified":"2010-02-12T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:43:04","slug":"apple-vs-google-who%e2%80%99s-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/312659","title":{"rendered":"Apple vs. Google: Who\u2019s Evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>I have long been amused by watching how the public&#8217;s perception of a company often changes as the company grows into a giant corporation. I remember when Microsoft was just a hobbyist&#8217;s supplier of MS-DOS and BASIC, and how it became the &#8220;evil empire&#8221; in the eyes of many as it grew into the behemoth of today. The same has happened to Google and Apple, and we now see the two giants going head-to-head for our hearts (and dollars).<\/p>\n<p>GigaOM has been watching this too, and have produced an <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/12\/google-vs-apple\/\">outstanding graphic<\/a> that shows Google and Apple squaring off in different areas. The graphic even points out what Steve Jobs really feels about Google. It&#8217;s worth a look on this Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/google-apple-graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"Google Apple graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/jkontherun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/google-apple-graphic.jpg?w=500&#038;h=319\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56890\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related research: <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-fiber-and-their-place-in-the-smart-grid\/\">Google Buzz, Fiber and Their Place in the Smart Grid<\/a> (sub req&#8217;d)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/jkontherun.wordpress.com\/56891\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=jkontherun.com&#038;blog=4479943&#038;post=56891&#038;subd=jkontherun&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been amused by watching how the public&#8217;s perception of a company often changes as the company grows into a giant corporation. I remember when Microsoft was just a hobbyist&#8217;s supplier of MS-DOS and BASIC, and how it became the &#8220;evil empire&#8221; in the eyes of many as it grew into the behemoth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}